Research projects The Rural Sociology Group is committed to conducting research on agriculture, rural areas, and food provisioning from a critical and comparative standpoint. Projects Project Granular: Better knowledge for better rural policies Project Grassceiling: Gender Equality in Rural and Agricultural Innovation Project European Forum on Urban Agriculture Project Serigo: Social Economy for Resilience, Inclusion and Good life in Rural areas Project SWIFT (Supporting Women-Led Innovations in Rural Territories) Project Diamant van ons platteland (Diamond of our countryside) Project Toekomst van de landbouw (Future of agriculture) Project Contract Farming Initiative Project Everyday political economies in Northeast India Project The Spatial Dimension of Insurgent-Civilian Relations: Routinised Insurgent Space PhD projects Project Learning from ‘informal’ food networks: Realizing the right to food in contexts of semi-permanence Project Settling Down in the Netherlands: relationships between food, body and place in a transnational context Project Integrating urban food production in urban planning Project Understanding dignity of food aid receivers in Europe Project The politics of care and well-being in community economies: Elderly women’s local businesses and practices in rural Japan Project Social and Economic Possibilities for Food Forestry in the Netherlands Project Soil Care in Market Gardening in Luxembourg Project Connecting with What Nature? Exploring the influence of urban conservation initiatives on attitudes towards human-nonhuman relations Twitter Whatsapp Linkedin Email